We leap into the new year with a strip that’s entirely dream, it turns out. Here’s the text.
Top row, left: One evening, after Willie Winkie had been down to the river and had seen the viaduct there and his Ma had tucked him up in his bed, he had the funniest dream you can imagine. Think of it! He dreamt he stood, as he had a few hours before, at the river side and saw the old locomotive creep over the viaduct. But the viaduct had turned into a many-footed monster, and began to wobble and fidget, ecause the locomotive was tickling its back.
Top row, center: As Willie Winkie stood looking on the monster commenced arching its back higher and higher in its effort to shake off the locomotive. Willie wished so very much to be a little taller, so that he could better see what was going to happen. There! Look! Over the water stepped one of the friendly uncle-trees and offered to take Willie up into its branches.
Top row, right: Meanwhile the locomotive had become really too insolent. It had stuck a pipe into its mouth and was puffing smoke out of it, and had, besides, tickled the monster so much that it began to run away. It marched with its gigantic legs right through a little town, causing the church and the houses to dance helter-skelter in tehir anxiety. Willie, from his high perch, could follow the whole spectacle.
Joseph Nebus Premium Member almost 3 years ago
We leap into the new year with a strip that’s entirely dream, it turns out. Here’s the text.
Top row, left: One evening, after Willie Winkie had been down to the river and had seen the viaduct there and his Ma had tucked him up in his bed, he had the funniest dream you can imagine. Think of it! He dreamt he stood, as he had a few hours before, at the river side and saw the old locomotive creep over the viaduct. But the viaduct had turned into a many-footed monster, and began to wobble and fidget, ecause the locomotive was tickling its back.
Top row, center: As Willie Winkie stood looking on the monster commenced arching its back higher and higher in its effort to shake off the locomotive. Willie wished so very much to be a little taller, so that he could better see what was going to happen. There! Look! Over the water stepped one of the friendly uncle-trees and offered to take Willie up into its branches.
Top row, right: Meanwhile the locomotive had become really too insolent. It had stuck a pipe into its mouth and was puffing smoke out of it, and had, besides, tickled the monster so much that it began to run away. It marched with its gigantic legs right through a little town, causing the church and the houses to dance helter-skelter in tehir anxiety. Willie, from his high perch, could follow the whole spectacle.
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